Posted: Nov 16, 2021 7:16 pm
minininja wrote:Yeah, there's no choice left but to attempt to organise mass civil disobedience. Too many governments have wasted every chance to do the right thing and have again sided with fossil fuel companies. I've supported XR, mostly from a distance, for a long while, but I'm going to be getting more actively involved from now on.
I've, in a very sincere way, fallen out of love with XR because I do not think demanding a legally binding Citizen's Assembly on climate change will ever happen, due to, amongst other things, politicians believing in democracy and their careers and that they have egos and so they're incapable of holding up their hands and saying "you're right XR et al - we're incapable of doing our jobs!" At least not before the proverbial plane crashes into the proverbial mountain. On a brighter note however:
Around 60 cars in the city's wealthy West End had tyres deflated by activists who left leaflets on windscreens urging owners to replace their cars with smaller vehicles or use public transport.
The protest was carried out by the group Tyred of SUVs, a spin-off from Glasgow Calls Out Polluters, which has its origins in Glasgow University student climate activism.
Citing figures from the International Energy Agency (IEA), a spokesman for Tyred of SUVs said: "If 4x4 drivers were a nation, they'd be the seventh biggest polluters on the planet.
"If the one per cent won't take responsibility for the climate destruction they wreak, we'll make them."
Its leaflets warned drivers that their car had been "disarmed" by "deflating one or more of its tyres". The group said it had not damaged any vehicles in the action.
"Unnecessary luxury lifestyle choices in rich countries are part of what is driving the climate breakdown," the flyer adds.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/cars/news/climate-activists-target-suvs-and-let-down-tyres/ar-AAQDt4v?ocid=uxbndlbing&pfr=1